SOMALIA: Crippling drought forces nearly half a million people from their homes so far...
Source: Save The Children
BAIDOA, Somalia, 28 March, 2022 – Somalia’s worst drought in decades has forced more than 450,000 people to abandon their homes...
War in Ukraine threatens to increase hunger in Sudan
Source: Save The Children
KHARTOUM, 24 March – More than 80 percent of Sudan’s wheat imports are at risk as a result of the conflict...
Yemen: Seven years into conflict, 60% of children know someone who has been injured
Source: Save The Children
Isaac*, 14, at his home in Taiz, recovering after being shot by a sniper while playing football outside his school
SANA’A, 24...
AFGHANISTAN: Save the Children appalled by reports that formal ban on girls’ education will...
Source: Save The Children
KABUL, 23 March – Today, Taliban leadership announced that all secondary school classes for girls are to be suspended, pending further...
Speed up repatriations or foreign children could be stuck in North East Syria camps...
Source: Save The Children
23 March 2022 – It will take 30 years before foreign children stuck in unsafe camps in North East Syria can...
Cautious hope for girls’ education in Afghanistan as secondary schools reopen
Source: Save The Children
Hasina*, 14, at a Save the Children community-based school in Kabul, Afghanistan. Photo credit: Claudia Vessey/ Save the Children
KABUL, 23 March – Secondary schools...
Ukraine crisis: Save the Children calls for immediate halt on intercountry adoptions to keep...
Source: Save The Children
KYEV, 22 March 2022 – Save the Children has called for an immediate ban on intercountry adoptions of children uprooted by...
At the UN Afghanistan pledging summit, world leaders must step up for girls’ education
Source: Save The Children
Over six months on since the Taliban takeover, Afghan girls are still being denied their right to education.
Whilst the closure of...
Indonesia: Proposed Papua gold mine is ‘recipe for disaster’
Source: Amnesty International NZ
Unlawful killings, buildup of security forces in vicinity of a planned gold mine concession
Authorities restrict daily life of Indigenous Papuans, including...
Six million children trapped in Ukraine face grave danger as attacks on schools and...
Source: Save The Children
KYIV, 21 March 2022 – Up to six million children trapped inside Ukraine are in imminent danger as an increasing number...
AFGHANISTAN: Desperate mother agreed to sell her unborn baby as debt-ridden families are pushed...
Source: Save The Children
Kabul, 18 March – An Afghan mother agreed to sell her unborn baby as the country’s economic crisis forces jobless, debt-stricken...
Children in urgent need of life-saving support as Cyclone Gombe batters southeast Africa
Source: Save The Children
LILONGWE, 18 March – Children and families in south-east Africa are facing an escalating humanitarian crisis following Cyclone Gombe, which battered...
